Things That Are Bothering You, Got You All Hibbeldy-Jibbeldy, or just downright pissed, RIGHT NOW!

[sugarbutch]

It’s 5:45 p.m. - our power has now been out exactly 48 hours. I was having dinner on the patio with the kiddos when we saw a line crew walking along the fence line inspecting the line above them so fingers crossed our power will be back on before too long. 🤞

Nearly impossible to see but those sets of legs in the background are the utility crew.

This may be the most useless picture poasted this year. Bravo.

 

[Michigan Planner]

^ Maybe there never actually were any linemen in that photo. We’re about to enter day 4 with no electricity here.

 

[Numbernine]

^ Maybe there never actually were any linemen in that photo. We’re about to enter day 4 with no electricity here.

WTF
I lived on the smallest circuit in the San Jose area for 4 years. Meaning we were the last in the area to get service. I don't think we ever lost power for more than a couple days.

 

[patrick_b]

This may be the most useless picture poasted this year. Bravo.

I see it!! I see it!!

 

[Michigan Planner]

💡 ⚡️ And on the 4th day there was light, and it was good! 💡 ⚡️

WTF
I lived on the smallest circuit in the San Jose area for 4 years. Meaning we were the last in the area to get service. I don't think we ever lost power for more than a couple days.

For the first 10 or 12 years in this house we probably lost power for a cumulative grand total of 40 minutes, but in the last few years we’ve had a bunch of outages lasting hours or days and days.

I work in economic development and we used to tout that Metro Detroit had one of the most reliable electric grids in the Midwest/Great Lakes and among all major metros nationally. Combine that with relatively few days of productivity lost due to weather-related events and these were big selling points to help lure firms here or to convince them to stay here when expanding.

Over the past few years, the two large electric utilities that power most of the southern half of the Lower Peninsula (where everyone in the state lives) have dropped to two of the worst in terms of grid reliability and ability to recover from outages.

For this latest storm, looking at the outage map and info from our county emergency response group, there were 300,000 outages for our provider (out of about 3 million households and businesses they service) but no big areas where the outages were really all clustered. That probably slows things down a bit since they have to spread the crews around a lot more.

I was watching the number of outages on their map dwindle over the past few days so it was getting increasingly frustrating while we remained in the dark. By the time we finally got our power back about an hour ago, there were only about 0.35% of their customers still in the dark. I guess some neighborhood has to be last but why us? 😒

 

[Numbernine]

💡 ⚡️ And on the 4th day there was light, and it was good! 💡 ⚡️



For the first 10 or 12 years in this house we probably lost power for a cumulative grand total of 40 minutes, but in the last few years we’ve had a bunch of outages lasting hours or days and days.

I work in economic development and we used to tout that Metro Detroit had one of the most reliable electric grids in the Midwest/Great Lakes and among all major metros nationally. Combine that with relatively few days of productivity lost due to weather-related events and these were big selling points to help lure firms here or to convince them to stay here when expanding.

Over the past few years, the two large electric utilities that power most of the southern half of the Lower Peninsula (where everyone in the state lives) have dropped to two of the worst in terms of grid reliability and ability to recover from outages.

For this latest storm, looking at the outage map and info from our county emergency response group, there were 300,000 outages for our provider (out of about 3 million households and businesses they service) but no big areas where the outages were really all clustered. That probably slows things down a bit since they have to spread the crews around a lot more.

I was watching the number of outages on their map dwindle over the past few days so it was getting increasingly frustrating while we remained in the dark. By the time we finally got our power back about an hour ago, there were only about 0.35% of their customers still in the dark. I guess some neighborhood has to be last but why us? 😒

I talked to some PG&E people about it years ago they told me first it's the critical stuff like hospitals then industrial areas and finally primarily residential according to number of customers. Thats why we were always last as the area I lived in was mostly old ranches on the outskirts of the city. When I moved to San Jose in the early 70's it was almost all fruit orchards in the valley and ranches in the surrounding hills.

 

[sugarbutch]

Over the past few years, the two large electric utilities that power most of the southern half of the Lower Peninsula (where everyone in the state lives) have dropped to two of the worst in terms of grid reliability and ability to recover from outages.

Let me guess, they're seeing record profits?

I talked to some PG&E people about it years ago they told me first it's the critical stuff like hospitals then industrial areas and finally primarily residential according to number of customers. Thats why we were always last as the area I lived in was mostly old ranches on the outskirts of the city. When I moved to San Jose in the early 70's it was almost all fruit orchards in the valley and ranches in the surrounding hills.

My friend lives up in the hills on what used to be a ranch. They have solar and a couple of power walls to avoid this very thing.

 

[mhip]

This guy gives a fairly thorough truth bomb, and gets suspended.

Commanders VP trashes players, Jones, Goodell

The Commanders have suspended an employee for comments on the team's players, Cowboys owner Jerry Jones and commissioner Roger Goodell.

www.espn.com

 

[brokencycle]

This guy gives a fairly thorough truth bomb, and gets suspended.

Commanders VP trashes players, Jones, Goodell

The Commanders have suspended an employee for comments on the team's players, Cowboys owner Jerry Jones and commissioner Roger Goodell.

www.espn.com

Bad mouthing the fat cats in charge and the players is probably a bad idea. He also doesn't know what state media is if he thinks a private company tweeting out a lie is state media.

The question is how someone with such poor judgement can get a job like that because I could use some tips.

 

[mhip]

Bad mouthing the fat cats in charge and the players is probably a bad idea. He also doesn't know what state media is if he thinks a private company tweeting out a lie is state media.

The question is how someone with such poor judgement can get a job like that because I could use some tips.

Well, apparently a spot is about to open up.

 

[Jen]

The school shooting in Georgia today is basically a below-the-fold “in other news” story. It’s so gruesome that we are blase about murderous 14 year olds, murdered teachers and students, and traumatized families.

 

[brokencycle]

The school shooting in Georgia today is basically a below-the-fold “in other news” story. It’s so gruesome that we are blase about murderous 14 year olds, murdered teachers and students, and traumatized families.

Today someone also murdered 4 sleeping people on the train in Chicago for an unknown reason.

 

[cross22]

This guy gives a fairly thorough truth bomb, and gets suspended.

Commanders VP trashes players, Jones, Goodell

The Commanders have suspended an employee for comments on the team's players, Cowboys owner Jerry Jones and commissioner Roger Goodell.

www.espn.com

WTF is an undercover reporter? This guy probably has a lawsuit if the chick baited him as part of her official employment duties.

 

[HRoi]

Commanders fire VP for comments made in video

The Commanders have fired an employee for comments on the team's players, Cowboys owner Jerry Jones and commissioner Roger Goodell.

www.espn.com

That person is now fired. How many of us have talked **** about our coworkers and employers on a date?

 

[SixOhNine]

He also said on the video that "most of the fans are high-school-educated alcoholics" and called them "mouth breathers."